But the stay is only temporary, just because Li Bida needs to stop and collect intelligence from all sides. After a while, Sabo gathered all the information from all sides and presented it, although Caesar's army set out three days early, but the area he traveled was the richest in all of Greece, so the battle did not encounter anything, but there were a lot of affairs such as the case, so he had just entered the city of Delphi.

Scipio, on the other hand, hesitated at the right bank of the line of defense of the Aryakmon River, and apparently heard the end of Rabinus's army, and began to be annoyed that if he had not entangled with the detached division of Lypida, he had gone directly to cooperate with Rabinusli to join forces and break Caesar's main force, otherwise he would not have been in the dilemma he was in today. Scipio sighed, and began to intensify his orders to the tax-collectors, and to frantically collect a large sum of extra taxes in the areas he occupied, and then began to look at which seaports along the coast could be used to transport the troops to Asia Minor.

All in all, no one thought that Scipio would hold on to the Alyakmon River, "The north of Greece is full of crooked cliffs and excellent harbors, and we need not bite poor Scipio or stop him, let him go, and we will continue our march towards Thessaloniki." Quickly understanding the situation, he once again directed all his men, ignoring Scipio at all, and marching swiftly along the seafront stretching northeast of the city of Perra, towards the sharp corners of Europa.

Suddenly, Scipio's three legions, including the natural danger of the river, were completely useless, or he continued to hold on now, waiting for Caesar's attack; Either he hurried back to his division now and crossed the Helispont Strait at Lybida. Before entering and exiting Asia Minor. Go to Ephesus to meet up with the other teams. Decided to stay.

While Scipio was still flustered, Lipida's army had advanced for a hundred Roman miles, and then met with the Thracian king Curtis somewhere on a creek north of Thessaloniki, which was also the traditional border between the Kingdom of Thrace and the Macedonian province.

This meeting was begged by Curtis a long time ago, because he knew that the sole heir of the kingdom, Prince Salada, was worth his life. It was in the palm of the cavalry commander's hand.

Each side carried a hundred cavalry, as well as a scepter, a bundle of rods, and flags that symbolized status, and looked across the river, and then Li Pida and Curtis each set out in a small boat. To be honest, it is difficult to say that Curtis was a barbarian based on his appearance alone, he wore Greek robes, wore a golden crown in the Mycenaean style, had a lion-like nose, and a thick beard, and was always known to the outside world as a descendant of Alexander the Great's "successor". de jure dominion over the entire Greek world, certainly after the rise of the Roman Republic. This gradually became a secret dream in the hearts of successive Thracian kings. Curtis originally hoped to expand his kingdom by providing the "Great Pompey" with a servant army, but unexpectedly, he almost planted the heir to the throne.

"The kingdom of Thrace shall declare its allegiance to Caesar of Dixitor of the Republic with immediate effect, and shall provide two thousand foot horsemen and fifteen thousand bushels of wheat to follow the cavalry commander Li Bida on the expedition to Asia Minor, and King Curtis must swear before the gods that he shall not support any of Caesar's enemies, whether by land or sea, and shall not send any army across the borders of the province of Free Macedonia. As a sincere gesture of peace, General Li Bida was willing to return Prince Salada. Curtis looked at his own son standing on the bow of the other party's ship, licked his lips, and raised his scepter in recognition of the content.

At this point, the Kingdom of Thrace officially announced its withdrawal from Pompey's camp. At this moment, Lybida's front army had been strengthened by Piosia, Thrace, Macedonia and many other servant armies, and the total number had reached about 60,000 men, and then the army arrived at the destination identified by Lybida, that is, as he had previously said, "a place that can hold the key points of Europa and Asia, and can be used as a springboard for the capture of Asia Minor", Byzantium.

Byzantium, a simple place name, as early as 500 years ago, the ancient Greeks discovered its geographical uniqueness, its land facing Europa is very fertile, especially suitable for growing a variety of crops; To the north, it overlooks the Sea of Propentis, now known as the Sea of Marmara, a pocket-shaped sea area held by two narrow "gates", namely the Helliston Strait and the Bosphorus, which can be repelled by a large number of enemy forces with only a small number of ships, and the Sea of Propentis itself is a large natural fishing ground, which can provide the city with an inexhaustible supply of meat. On the other side of the sea, on the eastern shore, is the legendary ancient city of Troy, located on Mount Ida, where Achilles and Ajax, two of the bravest warriors, anchored their ships at one end of the strait and the other side of the strait.

But when the ancient Greeks were building the city, they made a ridiculous mistake, they would go to the east shore of the Propentis Sea to build a castle called Tsarcidon, and they didn't know that the Golden Bull Horn on the west coast was a seaport that did not need shelter from the wind at all, and even large merchant ships unloaded and landed here, without the need for barges, but directly docked, and this sea area would not be harmed by any storms and rain all year round.

Of course, the ancient Greeks didn't know, but Li Bida knew that he loved travel before the crossing, he had been to the city of Istanbul, and he also knew that the name of the city in the Roman Empire was Constantinople, but now it is impossible to have this name, but only Byzantium, and the Roman Republic also lacked due attention to this location, and was only satisfied with granting the city the right to freedom, because they had just conquered Asia Minor and the East for a long time, and they were still accustomed to sending troops directly to the garrison by sea. So it was even placed under the jurisdiction of the province of Cyprus, and Cato the Younger had taken the trouble to take a boat from Rhodes to Byzantium to settle the disputes between the city-states. Now the 60,000 troops of the Roman cavalry commander Lepita had come and were going to build a new wall in this place, and Libida had a good reason to say this to Caesar:

"This site has been a key route between the Eastern and Western empires since ancient times, whether it is the ancient Trojan War, and the huge pontoon bridge built by King Darius of Persia, or the eastern crusade of Alexander the Great, it is necessary to control the Helispont Strait, and this place called Byzantium. I was determined to build a castle here, and to occupy several important islands in the Sea of Propentes, and then to extend the fortress to Asia on the other side of the shore, for the purpose of garrisoning cavalry and fleets, so that the Republic could defend itself against the Kingdom of Thrace in the north, and into Asia Minor in the east, and at the same time control two vast seas. (To be continued......)